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Reminder: Transformers Game Creator Live On Kotaku Talk Radio On Wednesday
Kotaku Talk Radio will be recording live on Wednesday. 11am Kotaku Time. 1pm ET. 10am PT. Host: Me. Guests: Matt Tieger talking about his new game, Transformers: War For Cybertron. Call-in and live-streaming details will be on Kotaku at showtime.
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2010 -
This Guy Had A Fancier Video Game Birthday Party Than You
One of the ways celebrities are different from you and me is that they might spend their 21st birthday party with their model girlfriend on a 140-foot yacht. And DJ Hero would be the sponsor. Actor Brandon Mychal Smith is the celebrity we’re discussing, an actor I confess I had to Google in order to…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2010 -
New Carnival Games Is New Carnival Games
Congratulations to the fine people at Take Two Interactive for doing their part in promoting the use of the word “new” as an essential element of a new game’s title. Today’s newly-revealed Wii and DS game New Carnival Games can sit comfortably on alphabetical store shelves beside New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2010 -
DJ Hero 2 Designed For People Who Want Two Fake Turntables, Mic
The next DJ Hero game will be out this fall with a whole bunch of new options, including new multiplayer modes, microphone support for singing and/or rapping and, well, I think they want you to possess two turntable controllers. The official word from the game’s publisher today is that DJ Hero 2 is all about…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2010 -
Prepare Your Questions About Autobots and Decepticons
Start rehearsing your nerdiest Transformer questions, because we’ve got a bona fide Transformers game developer sitting in the guest chair live on Wednesday’s Kotaku Talk Radio. Call in and ask them. I’ll have mine ready, for sure. Matt Tieger, High Moon Studio’s game director on this month’s Transformers: War For Cybertron game, just might be…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 7, 2010 -
Reviews
X-Scape Review: The Beauty Of The Old Ugly
Can you love shapes and straight lines? Crimson spider robots casting maroon shadows? Pink stripes painted beside tan in tunnels of sky-blue enemies? Fly to an era when game graphics were ugly and the best of that ugliness was beautiful. Your method of time-warp transportation is X-Scape, another downloadable DSi game with a questionable name,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2010 -
It’s Like Galaga, But You’re The Aliens Up Top
Yes, the DS I am holding here is upside down. I have a good reason for that. I am playing a cutting-edge game. Have you ever seen a shoot-em-up that lets you controls the bad aliens at the top of the screen? Finally, I can rain destruction on a stupid upward-shooting space-ship. This is how…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2010 -
Grading The E3 Video Game Promises, One Year Later
A year ago, three companies predicted, planned and promised to you, the gamer, many things about the future of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS and PSP. Someone had to separate that hype of E3 2009 from the reality of the 12 months that followed. How about us? PS3 and PSP Coming in with…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2010 -
Two Gamers Who Spend Two Full Days A Week Playing Games
Remember that NPD study that defined extreme gamers as people who average 48.5 hours of play time a week? G4’s Patrick Klepek got two of these gamers to explain themselves. One of them is 22-year-old Chelsie Chatelain, who explains how she manages to play games so much: “I just have A LOT of free time,”…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
Red Dead Redemption Free DLC Out June 22
The promised free co-op-centric downloadable content for Red Dead Redemption will be available on June 22, according to Rockstar. Expect six co-op missions for 2-4 players, including an explosive shootout with the Walton gang.
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
Reminder: You Could Be Playing This Live-Action Atari Game
The 2010 Come Out & Play Festival will start tomorrow in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve mentioned it before, but now I can show you the test-run for the festival’s live-action version of Atari classic Kaboom. Compare it to the virtual version. Real-life Kaboom is just one of a weekend’s worth of public games, some based on…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games
Any game can sell. But any game that sells can collect dust a week after it is bought. These are the 20 games that collect the least dust, that get played the most per user. Welcome back to Kotaku’s monthly update of Nintendo Wii stats. At the beginning of each month we provide the latest…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
One Year Later, Did These PS3 and PSP Promises Come True?
The PlayStation people promise a lot of things. They did one year ago. Now those promises and plans are being checked, by me, to see which elements of their E3 2009 Sony hype came true and which did not. Sony is the third victim this week, following the Kotaku promise-checking of Microsoft’s E3 2009 festivities…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
Cheese, Last Names And, Oh Yeah, Singularity
The latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio is ready for you to download. Listen to an hour of conversation between me and the amiable Jeff Poffenbarger, senior producer of upcoming first-person shooter Singularity. Cheese was discussed. Other topics covered during my chat with Poffenbarger: -Where in the world does the last name of SIngularity hero…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 2, 2010 -
The Pocket God Comic Book Has A Story, Somehow
One of the biggest games/apps/whatever-it-is on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Pocket God, will be turned into a comic soon. Here’s page three, the second page to be shown to the public (after this one). But what’s the story? Dave Castelnuovo of Pocket God studio Bolt Creative explained, over e-mail, what the comic is about:…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 2, 2010
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